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Sam Dastor: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Sam Dastor narrates 36 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 389.1 hours in all; the median one runs 9.4 hours.

36titles
389listening hrs
9.4median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated
36
Total listening time
389.1 hrs
Median length
9.4 hrs
Release years
2003 to 2026
Longest
Joseph Anton (27 hrs)
Shortest
Great Explorers of the World (2.6 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators
6

Shelf mix

Where Sam Dastor's audiobooks sit on the store's shelves. A title can sit on more than one.

Store shelfTitlesShare
Police & Detective1131%
Literary Fiction514%
Mystery, Thriller & Horror514%
Classics (Literature)411%
Suspense411%
Historical (Fiction)411%
History & Culture38%
Memoirs26%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Sam Dastor on the same recordings.

NarratorShared titles
Douglas Blackwell2
Zia Mohyeddin2
John Rowe2
Irene Sutcliffe1
Peter Barker1
Peter Egan1
Martin Jarvis1
Anthony Hall1
James Bolam1
Stephen Tompkinson1
Vayu Naidu1
Derek Seaton1

Audiobooks narrated by Sam Dastor

Every title, with its store running time. Ordered by popularity on the store (rating counts, used only for ordering and never shown).

#TitleAuthorLength
1The Satanic VersesSalman Rushdie21.4 hrs
2The CollectorLaura Kat Young8.9 hrs
3A Passage to IndiaE.M. Forster11.1 hrs
4The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private InvestigatorTarquin Hall9.4 hrs
5Joseph AntonSalman Rushdie27 hrs
6The Case of the Reincarnated Client: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private InvestigatorTarquin Hall8.8 hrs
7The Case of the Love Commandos: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private InvestigatorTarquin Hall8.5 hrs
8The Case of the Deadly Butter ChickenTarquin Hall9.4 hrs
9North of DawnNuruddin Farah10.4 hrs
10India: A Wounded CivilizationV.S. Naipaul6.7 hrs
11The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in CrisisAmitav Ghosh10.2 hrs
12The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private InvestigatorTarquin Hall8.5 hrs
13Last Man in TowerAravind Adiga14.2 hrs
14The Case of the Love CommandosTarquin Hall8.5 hrs
15The Railway Detective's Christmas CaseEdward Marston9.2 hrs
16Death at the TerminusEdward Marston9.1 hrs
17Great Explorers of the WorldDavid Angus2.6 hrs
18The Caretaker: A Ranjit Singh NovelA. X. Ahmad10.9 hrs
19The Case of the Man who Died LaughingTarquin Hall8.5 hrs
20The Case of the Missing ServantTarquin Hall8.4 hrs
21"He is our cousin, Cousin"Antony Barlow8.9 hrs
22The Mimic MenV.S. Naipaul10.2 hrs
23The Strangler Vine: The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 1)M. J. Carter12 hrs
24Origins of LoveKishwar Desai11.8 hrs
25Between the AssassinationsAravind Adiga9.6 hrs
26India: A Million Mutinies NowV.S. Naipaul24.8 hrs
27Tragedy on the Branch LineEdward Marston9.5 hrs
28The Devil's FeastM. J. Carter12.9 hrs
29Rabindranath Tagore: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Home and the World & The Red OleanderRabindranath Tagore7.5 hrs
30The Buddha and the Sahibs: The men who discovered India's lost religionCharles Allen12.3 hrs
31Murder in TransitEdward Marston9.3 hrs
32Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our TimesAmitav Ghosh12.4 hrs
33The Murder of the Maharajah & The Governess: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime DramatisationsH. R. F. Keating3.1 hrs
34R.D Wingfield: Post-Mortem Shock and other thrillers: 14 Full-Cast BBC Radio DramasR.D Wingfield11.6 hrs
35Journey’s End, The White Carnation & more: Six Full-Cast BBC Radio DramatisationsR.C. Sherriff8.2 hrs
36Prince Philip's Century 1921-2021 - The Extraordinary Life of the Duke of EdinburghRobert Jobson13.4 hrs

Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

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